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Lego Catalogs That Span 2 Years
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Mon, 29 May 2006 19:19:58 GMT
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Just checking to see if anyone still reads lugnet.general....
Since 1955, I have discovered that there are 3 Lego catalogs that span 2 years.
1956-57 Lego catalogs - In Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Germany (all the
countries that sold Lego in 1956), the 1956 catalog was a 2 year catalog that
was still in use in 1957. In 1957, the same (actually similar) catalogs were
used by Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands and Portugal when they came online to
Lego that year. For a view of a 1956-57 Lego catalog, go checkout the 1958
(year incorrectly labeled) Danish catalog in Peeron.
The next 2 year Lego catalog was the first year 1961-62 USA Samsonite catalog
seen here (from Joe Lauher's website):
http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/LEGO/60s_d2.jpg
http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/LEGO/60s_d3.jpg
And in 1971, when USA Samsonite knew that the Lego license was being revoked the
next year (1972), they didn't bother with a catalog each year. They just
printed this (pathetic!!) minimal catalog for 1971-72 (again from Joe Lauher's
website):
http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/LEGO/70s_sam1.jpg
http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/LEGO/70s_sam2.jpg
NOTE: In the 1971-72 USA Samsonite catalog the only yellow parts still being
sold in Samsonite sets were the Samsonite gears (from inventory). 1970 was the
last year that USA Samsonite sets contained yellow bricks/plates. When the last
of the yellow plastic pellets were depleted that year, Samsonite did not reorder
more yellow ABS plastic. So all the 1971-72 USA Samsonite sets had no yellow
bricks/plates.
Gary Istok
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| .... and while I'm on an "end of USA Samsonite" tangent. Look at this page from a 1972 J.C. Penney catalog.... these department store Samsonite Lego catalog sets (unique to USA) had huge parts counts... huge sets with over 800, 900, and 1,200 parts (...) (18 years ago, 29-May-06, to lugnet.general)
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